API Injection Dosing for Cannabis Pre-Rolls
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Solution Overview
Problem
The variability in potency and quantity of cannabis-based smokable structures and tea bags makes it challenging to consistently deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to the fill material and wrapping, affecting the therapeutic and recreational benefits for users.
Innovation Solution
A dosing system comprising a reservoir, injection tube, and conduit that delivers APIs to smokable rolls, pre-rolls, and tea bags, allowing for precise and controlled infusion of cannabinoids and terpenoids into the fill material and wrapping, enhancing the smoking experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If pre-roll smokable structures are provided to users in their constructed form with wrapping material containing cannabis plant matter, then the product is ready for immediate use, but the potency and quantity of fill material cannot be precisely controlled
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-constructing the smokable structure with wrapping material and fill material, then adding the API through injection before delivery to the user. This allows the product to be ready for immediate use while still enabling precise potency control through the injection step that infuses the API into the pre-assembled structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If rolls are created in situ by individually purchasing wrapping material and fill material, then product customization is possible, but consistent API delivery becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent resolves this contradiction by preliminarily assembling the wrapping material and fill material into a structured pre-roll format, then applying the API through injection. This preliminary structuring ensures that regardless of how the components were sourced, the final API delivery is consistent and controlled through the standardized injection process.
Solution Approach 2:
The injection system acts as an intermediary that bridges the customizable components (wrapping and fill material) with the precise API delivery requirement. By introducing the API through this intermediary injection mechanism, the patent ensures consistent potency control while allowing flexibility in the base components.
3Reliability
If APIs are introduced into smokable structures to ensure consistent potency delivery, then therapeutic benefits are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs pneumatic and hydraulic principles through the injection system that uses fluid pressure to deliver the API into the smokable structure. This approach achieves precise and consistent potency delivery through controlled fluid injection, while the system design integrates these mechanical principles into a relatively simple dosing apparatus that doesn't require complex electronic controls or multiple subsystems.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system ensures consistent and enhanced delivery of APIs, increasing the therapeutic effects and homogeneity of the cannabis experience by allowing controlled and repeated delivery of microdroplets or atomized sprays to specific locations within the smokable structures, improving user benefits.
Implementation Method 1
A dosing system comprising a reservoir, injection tube, and conduit that delivers APIs to smokable rolls, pre-rolls, and tea bags, allowing for precise and controlled infusion of cannabinoids and terpenoids into the fill material and wrapping
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AI summary
Methods and apparatus are described for delivering API to a smokable structures and tea bags that contain a fill material. The fill material can include cannabis plant matter, such as cannabis flowers. In one example, an injection tube can be inserted into a smokable structure, and the API can be emitted as a spray. Other methods examples of delivering API to smokable structures are disclosed.